The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-04-06
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Your weekiy ot the 10th brings me
Col. Ioumans's reioiader 70 ny last
article. Il is iuunz 10 sse how ht
.:aboats face and founders from one
irrelevert statement 20 another, bow he
lodges The issue, how mach '1nAy
llnii he wastes Oh ..cut;;e-.ish" logic.
I congratulate hin, however, upon
having risen 10 i higher plane than 12ere
personal abuse, a:1a IN trying % defend
his position By something besides
''smart" retortS aud sclool-boy Wit. He
still continues 70 make EaiSs;atements,
but I attribute this purely to dose wAo
loaded him He shoots wila: they put
u his gun without knoviD5 vasther Il
is lead or dough trath or t;.!syhoo3.
First, he says: Capt. Ys,h4an raises,
the cry OF catch tilio; against tie present
Coard o. agr:euiture, 2ld ;.ian Eo&l-
mated himself 20? oIlv .: t:,Gi2 success
sors.
The committee EIGc1 seiecy,sj The lea
names to constitute tie rev ;J0aSa OF
agriculture know how utterly false is
this assertion. | have ucvcY I.0milated
myself for any position exc2ps that Of
trustee CT az agricultural: college, and Il
c,.rnot be shown that I am "a dis&p
pointed ofice-seelier, Who cGls set n.
for have never asked ior any Office IL
my life.
He next quotes from ny So. cea n2a>ie
at the April Convention, TO pseye that !
am 'sseif-confesseily u f&i!age IN tie
management OF my OWL farm, IS fUt-
lows.."I hare been II tbat Aastiie my
self. Have ie3t she waters rlS;.:g higher
and higher as faitUre after failure - tie
cotton crop left nothing w!:ll wi1icA to
even pay iuteIest. Had to S=i! some
land, &c. Wei, sapposc ! d5st set II
debt, and 'Ssold.Son iaaG T. get oUt,
does that make ne fGitace: lie asks:
WHO or what WIS It then that did fai:;:
I answer: Simply, rain. ! nsv= not got
Il store so as to enable me tc -. ::.e money
shether It rains or not- ! lave DaTcr
been able to pick {; large crop Of cotton
whether I grew i or not. rave raised
some that men With stores sG2I, 5CV I dc
not admire that sort O; successful issrnl-
iIg." ! had rather thouS&il@; times So
down with n brother I&G:2.y!'s tL&n
fatteD IL then expense.
Again, il &il the men n So;;:A Garo>!-
Ia who have gotteE IL debt rs >d>;, "
who have made no money '':yll:.h 7E.2ic:!
IL pay interest since 1880 NJ. support
lhe measure advocated hy ne, there Hl4
Ike so little opposition thar Il HHI not be
worth Counting. y membGr Q: the
House from BanweA tod me that couo-
ty was not represented IN tie Farmers
Convention because thelc faJ!ners were
SO poor they could not aEoId to pay
their way to Co!unlbi;s.
But IL order 10 show WilsiS sort OF
failure an, I am GeiUctands; compelled
to obtrude some OF my pirate &t1&irs
upon the pnblie. l 30 this oaiy because
the lesson may be OF yalae - c:lerS,
and because Col. yoamans ::sAs so tn
slmphantly whether I am i IL person 70
s:lead the farmers CT the Stt&:e c-- to be
plsced on the board OF agriculture, p
I commenced farming IN le69, with
$50 acres OF land and tour pl0uSAs. J
inherited IT'D a3res Io-e 10 1873. IL
1885 I owned 2,2G0 acres, but owed
several thousand dcllars-neariy al of it
lost in 1881. l Lad cleared money every
wear up to that Gate, and bought land
and mules right along. II lSSi l ran
thirty ploughs, bought SEano and
.ations, &c., as usual, and The devil
tempted me to buy steam engine and
other machinery, amounting to over two
thousand dollars, all on credit. My
motto was that ''it takes money to make
money, and nothing risk, nothing have. >
To have been entirely free from debt
would have made me feel like q kite
without tail" So I struck cat boldly
into deep water. Ben JoGscn says:
Eve all are MORALS
And do have our visions.
I had mine, and taey were very rose
lued. Uninterrupted success hat; made
me & fool. I was like the little wanton
bows who swim On bIadders, buJ did
moi then know how much Of a bladder
cotton was oa land impoverished OF
vegetable matter IN :: dry yv&T. The
latter part 0: July began to give me az
:nkiing of what fraiI support 1t was.
The drought came. Il Gid not I;tln from
July 10 TIL late IL Septemo Der, and when
settled up had tail, enough to my
kite. I was in the Red Sea, out diG
not know It, ana still had plenty OF
confidence in myself and n ny ''.asnl-
ing didn't exactly think, hike Sena-
.or You1nans, that I ''h1iew 1t al, but !
thought knew how to farm, and !
WAS cotton planter still.
Nothing dauntea, IN lSo-. | struck Cut
boldly for the shore. But | thought u.
kites tail was lacking 6 little II weight,
so bought 230 acres more Land, rot
doubling that it would c5in AID I would
be all right again in = yeaI Or twc.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-tw was =
coed year and l made coed crops, but
there was small margin OF proii as eH-
penses were 50 Eeavy-corn Sl.JJ PEI
bushel and ,ueat Il to IS cents per
pound-so only mace the payment Oh
the land / bought. and had nothing iOs.
interest on the debt OF 1851. But nigh
priced provisions had sichel,ed re.
commenced 10 raise hogs an.t plant corr
enough 10 90 ne. | subscribed iCI tic
Country Gent.em2n. The heSt 2gyiat,--
tural paper II the United States, &H@
began to study.
10 cut this confession sho2::, o3, y
:S5 and So We're 81 poos y&su-s Iol coz
ton with Us. Tie ianG was SICK ;sIt,;
Soaldn t rain when Il ought -, and c..a